Name: Black Forest brownies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: Cuts into 20 squares
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 250g unsalted butter softened at room temperature, plus extra for greasing; 1 tbsp instant coffee powder; 350g light brown soft sugar; 4 medium eggs; 75g cocoa powder; 100g self-raising flour; 1 tsp cherry essence (optional), available from Lakeland; 100g dried sour cherries chopped; 200g dark chocolate (60% cocoa solids); 25g unsalted butter softened at room temperature; 50g icing sugar; green food colouring gel; 20 glacé cherries halved

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Black Forest brownies

Black Forest brownies

Nadiya Hussain

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Cuts into 20 squares

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 40 mins

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These easy-to-make, fudgy brownies, complete with retro decoration, marry a much-loved flavour pairing of cherry and chocolate

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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250g unsalted butter

softened at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
1 tbsp instant coffee

powder
350g light brown soft sugar
4 medium eggs
75g cocoa powder
100g self-raising flour
1 tsp cherry essence

(optional), available from Lakeland
100g dried sour cherries

chopped

To decorate

200g dark chocolate

(60% cocoa solids)
25g unsalted butter

softened at room temperature
50g icing sugar
green food colouring

gel
20 glacé cherries

halved

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Nutrition: per brownie

kcal310
fat17g
saturates10g
carbs34g
sugars28g
fibre2g
protein3g
salt0.2g

Method

step 1

Grease a 30 x 20cm cake tin and line with parchment. Heat oven to 180C/ 160C fan/gas 4. Mix the coffee with 2 tbsp boiling water, then set aside to cool.
step 2

Cream the butter and sugar together for about 5 mins until light and fluffy, then add the eggs, one at a time, incorporating well after each addition. In a separate bowl, combine the cocoa powder and the flour. Add in the cherry essence and cooled coffee to the butter mixture, followed by the dry ingredients. Mix well, then fold in the cherries.
step 3

Spoon into the prepared tin, level the top with the back of a spoon and bake in the centre of the oven for 30-35 mins or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool completely in the tin.
step 4

Once cool, melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or over a pan of simmering water, then spread in an even layer over the top of the brownies.
step 5

While the chocolate is setting, mix the butter with the icing sugar and a few drops of green food colouring. Put the buttercream in a piping bag fitted with a writing tip nozzle. Cut the brownies into 20 squares, place two glacé cherry halves on top of each one and use the buttercream to create the cherry stem.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2016

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